San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1887-08-04

the Cresset, the editor of the FIRE.
PRESS has gone so far in his abuse o
Governor Ross as to assert in his pa
per that he was partially responsible
for the train robberies that have beer
committed in the past five months.
Another mistake-we never mad,
such an assertion. We merely cop
led in our paper of June 30th a para
graph from the Fort Worth Mai
which looked somewhat in the direc
ton stated. We did not endorse it
but if we had it would not have beer
wide of the mark. For Gov. Ros
himself has since recognized the fac
that he was partially responsible
by issuing proclamation declaring
severe penalties against the robbers
But let us hear brother McGehee fur
the. Speaking of lis he says
And on several occasions has use(
my name in most disrespectful way
and dishonorable manner. Now, fel
low-citizens, after a residence of Al
years in your midst, am proud tt
say I. H. Julian is the first man tt
my knowledge to say that ever re
sorted to dishonorable means to &C
complish any end.
Again we put in a square denial
Your "honah," brother McGehee, uE
to the time of your latest writing
was not questioned so far as we were
concerned. We proceed with oul
quotations
If this man was as we'll known and
as little respected over these coun-
ties, as he is at San Marcos, where
he is best known, I should pay no at
tention to him, but as he is not, ]
shall take this means of denouncine
him.
1t is certainly very kind in our dis
tinguished representative to take the
trouble to post up his constituents of
the other counties of the district
against so bad q man and dangerous
member of society, as the editor of
the FREE Press. No doubt they will
be duly thankful. If he will kindly
permit us to speak we might, howev-
err, pertinently suggest that while he
has no doubt larger personal &C
quaintance throughout the district,
we, through our paper, are probably
quite as well and no doubt more fa-
vorably known; while as regards
Hays county, if we had not Ito put it
mildly three friends to his one
among the mass of the people, we
should feel like acting upon the sug
gestion so often and so kindly made
us by our dear friends of the saloon
party, in which if we are not misin-
formed Mr.. McGehee heartily con-
ours, to leave the country. But while
that we published Union,
Tor if you please, an abolition) paper
during the war, yet realizing that our
conduct since as straightforward
friend of National Cancellation and
Jeffersonian Democracy and our
daily walk and conversation as q citi-
zen of San Marcos for fourteen
years past have made us so many
more friends than so old citizen as
Mr.. McGehee can lay just claim to,
we have concluded to stay while
longer, at least till we get ready to
go. Meantime we confess we are so
a sinner that we can not
be made to feel that we ought to be
under ban for having been born in
Indiana, n State but for which, and
but for her Democratic masses with
whom we have affiliated and labored
for sixteen years, Texas and the
South to-day would be enjoying the
tender mercies of an administration
presided over by James G. Blaine.
Since reconstruction Indiana has done
more for the South than all her Bour-
bon class who delight in sneering at
our native State and villifying her
sons, have ever done, or been cspa-
BE Of doing.
Somehow we can't believe that the
good people Of this part Of Texas.
where We have 50 long lived and Ia
bored for What We believed Their best
interest vii osiracise Us even at the .